38 Weeks

38 weeks

My sister took some BEAUTIFUL pictures of my little family this weekend and since I love so many of them I can't choose.

Pregnancy Highlights:

Size of baby:

38 weeks: Baby is as long as a leekYour baby, now as long as a leek, weighs nearly 7 pounds. (Length: more than 19 1/2 inches, head to heel.)

Total Weight Gain/Loss: + 41 pounds - yikes!
Movement: He has run out of room to move freely and easily.  Any movements he makes are very noticeable and feel like a personal little earthquake that moves my whole body.  He's quite a strong little guy.

Sleep: Sleep is bad.  I wake up every 2 hours lately to pee or roll over or whatever.  It's awful.  I know pretty soon I'll be waking up often to change diapers and nurse but I'd rather be doing that already than have nothing to do when I wake up in the middle of the night.

What I miss: Opening bottles of wine.  I opened a bottle of wine today for somebody else and realized, wow it's been 9 months since I did this! 

Cravings: lots and lots of sweets and luckily the midwives still say he's under 8 pounds although I really don't believe them!

Symptoms: awful round ligament pain when I roll over at night, bad sleep, frequent urination, continued weight gain.  Although today was finally the last day of wheat.  I've been eating it daily for almost 2 months and my body finally said it's enough with way too much hacking up this morning.  So I'm glad I finally have to listen and no more wheat for me.

Best moment of this week: Jorge and I went to the movies on Sunday morning and Joaquin was moving like crazy for almost the entire movie.  I wasn't eating junk and don't recall what I had before I went so I'm not sure why he was moving so much.  But for the first time I put Jorge's hand on him and he finally got to feel how active and how strong his son is.  Until then every time Jorge touched him he would stop moving.